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Friday, December 14, 2007

Tourism boom at Cambodia's 'Killing Fields': company official

Posted on 2:35 PM by svdfbd
picture: Choeung Ek Museum which housed 9,000 skulls.PHNOM PENH (AFP) — The number of foreigners visiting Cambodia's "Killing Fields" has more than doubled from last year due to growing public interest in the Khmer Rouge tribunal, an official said Friday.Up to 500 foreign tourists are visiting the grim execution sites on an average day, compared with 200-300 per day in 2006, said Ros Sophearavy,
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